Re: php 5.2.0

On 2-May-06, at 3:25 PM, Andreas Korthaus wrote:

Hi! Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

So, if you have changes you'd like to see in 5.2 (don't go too wild now ;-) ), reply to this e-mail.

Some issues not yet in the wiki, which have been discussed on this list some time ago: 1. date extension with OO interface and classname "Date" (don't forget about the PEAR::Date fun ;-)) For the OO interface, AFAIR most people prefered something like: http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/pecl/date/docs/examples/sample1.php?view=markup to something like: http://www.zend.com/zend/week/date-timezone.txt

That is on the list.

2. late static binding (keyword "this"?) When using static classes and inheritance, you can't use parent methodes/members today

Too big for PHP 5.2 IMHO

But perhaps that's something for 6.0... Another idea for a future PHP version: pecl_http extension implements some really useful features: http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz Perhaps some day, when it's ready... it could implement the 5 functions from ext/http too, and replace that extension without any BC-issues...

I'd prefer to wait with addition of new extensions until PHP 6, unless there is a majority consensus that we absolutely must have this extension in PHP core. Ilia Alshanetsky Advanced Internet Designs Inc. ilia@prohost.org